Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Penn State Altoona/ENGL 15 (Spring 2023)

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Course name
ENGL 15
Institution
Penn State Altoona
Instructor
Jialei Jiang
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
English
Course dates
2023-02-15 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-03-31 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
21


ENGL 15 introduces you to college composition and academic writing. For this Wikipedia-editing assignment, you will collaboratively expand a stub or start-class Wikipedia article, evaluating and documenting sources to enhance the credibility and richness of the article. Each of you will include at least 3 external sources for the edit. The purposes of this assignment are to help you gain awareness of the informative style of writing and to critically address Wikipedia's content gaps.

Student Assigned Reviewing
SAFE1324 Wearable technology
Evechery History of violence against LGBT people in the United States
FopeO Educational inequality
ShayleeMz23 History of violence against LGBT people in the United States
SAC6498 Racial equality
Engl.15io Educational inequality
Law6140 Racial equality
Janki0128 Racial equality
Carlycincogrono Applications of artificial intelligence
Krm120503 Applications of artificial intelligence
Lgg5178 Applications of artificial intelligence

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Thursday, 16 February 2023
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 21 February 2023   |   Thursday, 23 February 2023
In class - Select your topic

Complete the training and then this exercise.

Exercise

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

History

More available here

Assignment - Evaluate & add to your article

====== Review the trainings and then complete the exercises. 

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Exercise

Evaluate your article

Add a citation to your article

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 28 February 2023   |   Thursday, 2 March 2023
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Begin drafting the rest of your planned contributions. 

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 14 March 2023   |   Thursday, 16 March 2023
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

In class - Peer review

You probably have provided feedback on other students' articles and received some feedback from other students. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
In class - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace." It's the final week to develop your article. Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. 

  • Read Editing Wikipedia pages 13-15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

 

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 21 March 2023   |   Thursday, 23 March 2023
Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.